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December 11, 2018

Yesterday I blogged about an Autodesk Gallery that we debuted at Autodesk University 2018: Autodesk Gallery at Autodesk University in Las Vegas: Norway's Ulriken Tunnel This particular exhibit has significance to me for three reasons: I recall Norconsult's exhibit from...
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October 22, 2018

image source: VueOps Today's blog post story comes to us from the Forge team. Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although...
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October 02, 2018

Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to...
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August 14, 2018

Autodesk Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able...
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June 11, 2018

Autodesk Forge Developers in the News Autodesk Forge is our collection of data and Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that Autodesk uses to develop our web services. We make these APIs available to the Forge community (customers and 3rd-party developers) that...
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May 29, 2018

Here are two problems: Let's say you're a CNC manufacturer that is searching for new CNC jobs on short notice because you have excess capacity. On the other hand, suppose you are a CNC manufacturer that wants to outsource jobs...
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May 14, 2018

image courtesy of SPINALCOM Autodesk Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party...
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March 26, 2018

image source: Steelcase Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings or Revit Building Information Models. If you'd like to leverage that data to showcase your...
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February 12, 2018

Xinaps empowers design professionals to design more efficiently by minimizing manual work and utilizing building data. Their tools are the first to validate elements within a building model and visualize the outcome directly within the 3D design software. Founded in...
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February 06, 2018

image source: grundfos.com "Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Am I right? Am I...
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January 23, 2018

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party...
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January 02, 2018

image source: Astralink Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to...
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November 15, 2017

Autodesk CEO Emeritus, Carl Bass, and I have the same birthday: May 18. So I was invited to Carl's 60th birthday party where I met Chris Anderson. Though he has the same name, Chris is not the TED guy. Chris...
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November 14, 2017

Millions of amputees around the world do not have access to prosthetic care. In the developing world, where poverty exacerbates the consequences of limb-loss, fewer than 5% of amputees have access to prosthetic rehabilitation. This situation is compounded even further...
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November 13, 2017

Smartvid.io is a Boston-based software company focused on leveraging machine learning to improve safety, productivity, and quality in the $10T global AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry. Their SmartTag Engine leverages deep learning to listen to (voice recognition) and watch...
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October 12, 2017

"Frogs in every shape and size that stare with nictitating eyes. Despite the hype, the fact remains we're drowning in amphibians. It's not just pouring cats or dogs, it's raining frogs. It's plain to see we've reached a state where...
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September 21, 2017

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party...
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September 19, 2017

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party...
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August 29, 2017

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party...
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August 22, 2017

ProtoTech Solutions is a software development and consulting company focused on engineering software. CADshare is a company whose service enables distributed engineering companies to work together like they are in the same building. Using Autodesk Forge, ProtoTech built CADShare, an...
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August 09, 2017

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that Autodesk uses to develop our web services. We make these APIs available to customers and 3rd-party developers that want to leverage 2D and 3D CAD data as part of...
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August 08, 2017

Sweco helps plan and design communities and cities of the future. It does this by offering qualified services in the fields of consulting engineering, environmental technology, and architecture. It was working with a large land developer, Bonava, who needed to...
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August 07, 2017

My colleague, Darren Brooker, works on the presentations given by our CEO and CTO. Darren has firm evidence that an effective presentation tells a story. He further postulates that every good story is based on trouble. There's even a 4-minute...
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August 03, 2017

Autodesk University is an international event. We hold it in many locations around the world. The first one for 2017 recently was held in London. The one I normally attend is in Las Vegas, Nevada where about 10,000 of our...
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July 24, 2017

Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party...
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July 19, 2017

I have known Keshav Sahoo for many years. Our history goes back as far as early versions of AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D, but my fondest memories include our days working on reality capture technology (i.e., scanning, photogrammetry) that graduated...
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July 18, 2017

When you think of valet, what comes to mind? Chances are that you think of an attendant parking your car as in valet parking. Though the word valet could apply to any servant who attends to the personal needs of...
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June 07, 2017

The Construction industry is currently faced with a gap between the digital tools for field management and enterprise resource planning tools in the office. Although the industry has started using BIM (Building Information Models) and field apps for collaboration, data...
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June 05, 2017

A while back I wrote a blog article that featured how Candy Mechanics (or anyone else for that matter) can use Autodesk Forge to create 3D chocolate lollipops where each is a 3D model of a person's head. Candy Mechanics:...
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May 22, 2017

Everyone who has used AutoCAD knows that it has a User Interface (UI). There is still debate today: command line or ribbon menu system? Proponents of the command line argue that using the command line is faster. Proponents of the...
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May 09, 2017

In December 2016, I shared a story about two Autodesk employees who CNC'd (computer numerically controlled) personalized creations using chocolate. Milling for Chocolate by Philippe Videau and Lucas Prokopiak Thanks to Autodesk Forge, Philippe and Lucas are not alone. Actually,...
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March 14, 2017

It's Pi Day so let's talking about an ever expanding pie — the home building market. Part of Autodesk's success is based on the fact that long ago the original founders: Recognized the computer industry was shifting from mainframe computers...
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